DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Letters from the Crimea, the Danube and Armenia

August 18, 1854, to November 17, 1858

Charles George Gordon author Demetrius C Boulger editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Feb '12

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Letters from the Crimea, the Danube and Armenia cover

Published in 1884 when the controversial general's popularity was at its height, these letters offer an insight into his personality.

This volume of letters was published in 1884, when General Gordon (1833–85) was engaged in the controversial defence of Khartoum that claimed his life the following year. Covering his time in the Crimea, these letters provided evidence of Gordon's strength of character and value as a military leader.This volume of letters was published in 1884, when General Gordon (1833–85) was engaged in the controversial defence of Khartoum that claimed his life the following year. The reputation of 'Chinese' Gordon, a complex figure, unpopular with the British government and military but adored by the people and press, was fed by works such as this. Covering his time in the Crimea as a young lieutenant, and later in the drawing up of the new frontiers between the Russian and Ottoman empires, these letters were published by his later biographer, Demetrius C. Boulger (1853–1928) as evidence of Gordon's strength of character and value as a military leader. One reviewer noted in them an 'indomitable cheerfulness of disposition, patient endurance, trustful fatalism, simple courage and faith, … [and] single-hearted devotion to duty', words which reflected the popular view of Gordon as a symbol of British national pride and imperial honour.

ISBN: 9781108044776

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm

Weight: 300g

228 pages